Donald Trump on Saturday announced that federal authorities had made “multiple arrests” of people he said were vandalizing the Reflecting Pool as he struggled to explain why the $14-million-plus rehabilitation project he launched for the nation’s 250th anniversary seemingly backfired.
Trump said his predecessors had let the pool turn an algae-stained green and that he’d line it with “American flag blue” so it better reflected the Washington Monument. But after the new pool was unveiled, its blue tinge quickly became a familiar green. Workers treated it with chemicals to kill the algae, but then the painted blue lining on the bottom began to peel.
Imagine being arrested and charged with a felony because a geriatric narcissist is too far gone to admit his cronies did a shit job:
One man arrested was David Hearn, 67, of Bethesda, Maryland, who owned a company that made composite used to build watercraft. He said he stopped by the pool during his 64-mile bike ride Friday to see what was going on.
Hearn, a former Olympic canoe racer, told The Associated Press that he reached into the pool because he wanted to examine the peeling new coating. He said he briefly touched a chunk that was still attached to the side of the pool, then let go shortly after a park worker told him to.
But, Hearn said, he was then detained by National Guard troops and Park Police for five hours before being released Friday night.
I first skimmed this comment and read Bethesda and then misread watercraft for Warcraft. I was confused about what that had to do with the topic.
Imagine your white privilege (assuming this guy is white) not protecting you from dipping your hand into what Trump imagined to be a literal pool.
Should we just start believing him?
He’s got an honest face.
This was suppose to be the one thing he didn’t fail at. His real-estate business is the one that he didn’t bankrupt. I would say now, it is definitive that its only still going because of fraud. He can’t even maintain a pool…
What a completely worthless human…
It’s 2026. We no longer substantiate anything - we just make whatever claims we want and attack whoever dares to call us out on it. That’s how I got my PhD.
YOU FILLED IT WITH WATER AND THEN DUMPED PEROXIDE IN IT BEFORE IT HAD TIME TO CURE, YOU DOLT.
The absolute fucking irony of the claim that vandals “dumped corrosive chemicals into the pool” lmao the writers of this season are just phoning it in at this point.
